Trust the BMC to do rubbish work even when it comes to garbage collection. For the last month-and-a-half, contractors have only been able to pick up 50 per cent of their daily target for dry waste. This is thanks to civic officials who approved a new design for garbage compactors, without realising that the dry waste compartment in the vehicles is far too small.

Not only have contractors already shelled out lakhs to buy 600 new garbage compactors as per the flawed design specifications, they might also incur further losses on modifying the vehicles if the BMC changes the specifications.